The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-11-11

Like whispered voice to calm and bless
All unrest and all loneliness.
Not ~ will" because the One
Who loved US first and last has gone
Before US on the road, and still
For US mpst all his love fulfill
Not as We will"
HELEN Hunt JACKSON.
mot FOR JOE"
. short Story Of q Flirting Girl and a
Serious Young Man.
There could be no doubt about it
that Joe was a firt-an arrant little
dirt. Her gray eyes. her curling lashes,
her pretty little piquant nose, bore
token to this indisputable fact. Her
young lady friends spoke OF it with a
contemptuous air, and thanked heav.
en- they we're not as some girls are; her
mother thought OF 1t and sighed, when.
with q brighter color than usual in
her cheeks and a sauucier light in her
eyes, her daughter made "herself agree.
able" to a newly found c~ongenial
spirit belonging to the male sex.
Somebody else meditated uponit, and.
told himself with q half.unconscious
sigh that Joey Lyttelton was nothing
more or less, than a heatless firt.
She was pretty, of course, small and
sweet. with q face that was all but
perfect. oval in shape and delicately
tinted like a n~ewly.ripened peach.
There was O saucy little cleft in her
rounded chin, and the smile on her
lip, brought two stray dimples into
her cheeks. Her hair was OF that in
describable color that was called by
her friends "artistic," and by her
enemies red. She was merry, be-
witching. tantalizing, all in one, with
that delicious air Of chic about her
which modern young ladies inform ms
is so utterly irresistible.
Besides being the belle OF Dimple-
thrope, the admired Of all admirers,
Miss Lyttelton was an hsiress OF no
small Importance in the county OF
steepleshire. She was currently
known to possess a round two thou.
sand a year in her own right, with
a prospect OF Thousand more upon
the death of her mother. The old
m~anor-house OF Geilston, which she
and her mother called "home" would
n day belong to Joe by hereditary
right, and already she held despotic
rule over it as atyrannicallittle queen
whose word was law. It is therefore
not to be wondered at that Joe had
been beset with suitors from every
corner OF her own world. The squires
.Ior many miles round came to Geils-
ton to pay their addresses to the pref.
ty Miss Lyttelton, who received them
kindly enough, but would only laugh
numerically whenever the subject OF
the tender passion was introduced.
She knew why they had come, and was
in the habit OF curling up her pretty
red lips. into something not unlike a
aneer when each new proposal was
laid temptingly before her. She was
never going to be married, never-her
mind was quite made up.
And SO it was %fornearly three years
until at length a change set in, for Joe
had fallen in love.
6 Girls OF her calibre do not find their
true love one day and lose him the
next. To use her own express
sion she fell in love once and
had done with it, as soon as she met
the man who was capable of winning
her heart. "He came, he saw, he con-
4uered!" and Joe felt that it was SO
with a thrill of delight that was as
sweet as it was novel.
Moreover, as months went on, she
vas not slow in finding out that he
loved her too. Not that he ever, by
as much as a hook, led her to suppose
that she was anything more to him
.han q casual acquaintance, pleasant
70 talk to in the evenings when her
mother invited him to come and "dine
quietly" at Geilston; but for all that,
Joe knew he loved her-how, it is i'm.
possible for me to tell.
Let me say a word OF two about
this young man before l go any far
.her.
To begin with, he was only a curate
"a hard working, indefatigable wears
aelp, upon l4O pounds a year. He
,ad come to Dinplethorpe about ~
months before this story begins, and
lad not been many weeks in the place
before he was considered by every.
body to be quite an acquisition. He
vas tall, manly, broad-shouldered,
IN short everything q woman most
admires jim q specimen Of the noble
sex; and, before she had known him
long, Miss Lyttelton had fallen in love.
There are, however. two important
tems in connection with Dick Derine,
which, in common honesty Unjust not
ioreet to record against him-he was
proud, and he was poor. One hum
dred and forty pounds q year, looked
at in whichever way you will, is not
what one usually considers a princely
fortune. but until he met Joe Lyttel.
ton. Mr.. Doring had never desired to
be any richer. He was proud, because
Althoueh he loved her honestly and
truly, he had made up his mind never
to let her know it, and to leave Dim
p%lethrope upon the very first oppor-
tunity that presented itself. She did
not care at al. Tor him, he told him.
self sternly. whenever he medi.
lated upon the subject. She
was only q heartless flirt, and it was
to his own interest to have nothing to
do with her. In the ordinary course
Of events she would marry and settle
down happily as soon as the right
man came to claim her. and before
very long it seemed to Dick Dering
a il that favored individual had ar
rived at last.
II happened that about six months
alter Mr.. Behring'S arrival at D,mple-
thorpr. a young lord Of nc small Inn
Dortance made his appearance upon
sne scene. He was the younger son OF
. peel, and had q seat in parliament,
y~oesessed q fair amount of brains,
mud was in Joe's opinion, rather jol-
"" His ancestral halls were in the
fAr north.fb1t he had purchased Hol-
iinksworth lodge, a place not five miles
Instant from the park-gates of Cells
ton. and there at the commencement
pf the hunting reason his lordship
took up his abode. Needless to relate
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